Hi all,
Many apologies to all who have read and will read this blog. (I hope)
I have committed a cardinal sin. One I promised I wouldn’t, namely stopping blogging for a while.
This of course turned into months!
Some good reasons for this though:
1) Re-branding: change of company name and focus. Working on new website as we speak (well, write)!
2) Being diagnosed as having epilepsy at the age of 38 after an out of the blue seizure in October hasn’t helped things. Three more in one day two weeks ago completely knackered me and I am now on life-long medication! I have to thank my clients and friends in the Edinburgh SBS User Group and wider UKSBS community for understanding and support.
3) Some IT issues have so thoroughly pissed me off that I couldn’t bring myself to vent about them until now. One being Windows 7: UAC being diluted, all the different versions and not having Bit-Locker in the ‘Business’ version!
What the F**K is that all about!
Microsoft knew what people thought about the different versions of Vista causing confusion. They knew that Bit-Locker was wanted (and needed) in the business/Pro version of Vista and therefore Windows 7.
Fair enough (maybe), Bit-locker was new in Vista so they wanted to recoup development costs but now it has been out for ages so why not add it to the ‘Business’ version of Windows 7?
Check this out:
http://hiltont.blogspot.com/2009/02/what-microsoft-seems-not-to-understand.html
They have to stave off the attitude of dumb terminals and in the Cloud servers that we are all told are coming in order to sell fully featured desktop operating systems. What do they do, they leave out one of the most important features and then ask businesses to pay even more to add it in.
Johnny business owners says: ‘Na, I don’t think I’ll bother buying SA to get this Bit-Locker, after all I don’t need a new version of Windows cause all my stuff is stored on the internet or my office server. If I do, I will get a new OS with each new PC I fork out for so why pay again. I don’t think so Microsoft!’
I never, I repeat, never, thought that I would think about thin client desktops so soon.
I knew that I would have to consider Cloud computing but I honestly thought that Windows fully featured OS’s would still be around and ‘wanted’ by the buying punters for years to come, mostly because of the features they added that dumb terminals didn’t have.
Way to go Microsoft!